The CBC’s Propaganda War

The only thing worse than having the biases of the mainstream media inflicted upon you on a daily basis is having to subsidize it. For Americans, to be sure, the rip-off isn’t so terrible: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, gets $430 million a year from the federal government, which comes to only a couple of bucks per household. In Britain, by contrast, the BBC license fee is now £145.50 ($226) annually per TV-owning family. And in Canada, the CBC receives more than $1.5 billion a year from the Canadian government, which amounts to upwards of $100 per household.

And what, exactly, are Canadian taxpayers paying for? That’s the question asked – and very illuminatingly answered – by a new documentary,This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC, producedby James Cohen and Fred Litwin. (The title is a reference to “This Hour Has 22 Minutes,” a long-running CBC series specializing in political satire.) Focusing on two main topics – anti-Israel bias and anti-conservative bias – the documentary consists almost entirely of CBC clips (most but not all of them from news programs) in which we can see these biases in action. To judge by this compilation, the CBC is perhaps even more slanted than the infamously partial BBC – and, perhaps, even more brazen about it.

Take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the documentary we see excerpts from a CBC report on the second Gaza “Freedom Flotilla” that consists entirely of interviews with flotilla participants – all of whom represent it as a virtuous and innocuous aid mission and condemn Israel’s actions against the previous flotilla as absolutely unjustified. At no point does the CBC provide even a brief reminder that there is, in fact, another side to the story. (As the documentary asks: “Is this reporting? Or stenography?”)

In one report, the CBC describes the Jewish Defense League, untruthfully, as a terrorist group that’s banned in Canada. In another report, on Hamas’s struggle with Fatah and takeover of Gaza, the CBC includes file footage of Israeli soldiers firing at terrorists – images that have nothing to do with the story in question. In both cases, the CBC was compelled to issue on-air apologies. (This documentary, in fact, is packed with on-air apologies for this sort of thing.)

We’re shown a clip in which an interviewer lets nutty ex-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a 9/11 Truther, rant away about Israel – and doesn’t challenge her when she accuses Israel of committing a “massacre” of “unarmed humanitarian activists.” And we’re shown another clip in which the despicable George Galloway is treated with fawning respect by interviewer George Stroumboulopoulos, who describes him as being banned from Canada (he’s not) and who agrees with Galloway that it’s “ridiculous” to consider him a terrorist. (To clarify this issue, the documentary makers show a clip from Arab TV in which Galloway is seen handing money over to Hamas – and bragging about it.)

Not only is the CBC systematically anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian. Its journalists introduce Israel and Palestine into stories that are utterly unrelated to Israel and Palestine, comparing aggressors with Israel and victims with Palestinians, the more firmly to fix in viewers’ minds the notion that Israelis are, indeed, the incarnation of evil and Palestinians as pure as the driven snow.

In a story about Somalis fleeing from belligerent Islamists in North Africa, for example, a CBC reporter says that “the Somalis are becoming the Palestinians of Africa.” In a story about Egypt’s use of its emergency laws to quell uprisings, another CBC reporter, in an apparent effort to make Egypt’s actions sound less harsh, points out that “Israel has an emergency law too,” which he proceeds to describe at length – even though those laws have nothing whatsoever to do with the events he’s reporting on.

The CBC, as the documentary points out, “can use any story to show how awful Israel is.” In a report on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CBC manages to work in an absurd comparison between the Soviets’ wall and Israel’s security fence: “For some people, the Berlin anniversary is a reminder of their own divisions. Today a group of Palestinian activists took down a slab of the security barrier that separates Israel and the West Bank.” (The report also describes the barrier as an “electronic fence,” which it isn’t.)

Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center and the author of “While Europe Slept” and “Surrender.” His book "The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind" is just out from Broadside / Harper Collins.

muchiboy

".. the despicable George Galloway is treated with fawning respect by interviewer George Stroumboulopoulos, who describes him as being banned from Canada (he’s not).."

If memory serves me correctly,Galloway was prohibited from entering Canada by the Canadian Government.I believe he was eventually allowed into the country after a ruling from the courts.

"He added that he would consult with his Canadian legal team to see what actions might be taken against Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, which may include a libel suit. Galloway said Kenney put him in danger and hurt his reputation by falsely branding him a terrorist.
He accused the government of using anti-terrorism "to suppress legitimate political debate here in the country."
Galloway was armed with a ruling by a Federal Court judge, who this week criticized the federal government for announcing in 2009 that Galloway would be prevented from coming to Canada.
Justice Richard Mosley called the move "a flawed and overreaching interpretation of the standards under Canadian law for labelling someone as engaging in terrorism or being a member of a terrorist organization."
Galloway had planned a Canadian speaking tour to voice opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but cancelled when he learned he would be denied entry.
The federal government accused him of supporting terrorism and the Canada Border Services Agency said he wouldn't be allowed into Canada."

Admittedly,one may find bias everywhere,more or less.And we do need to point this out and take measures to counter such bias.On the whole,I think Canadians are well served by the CBC.Also,I believe the bias is over overwhelmingly in favour of Israel in the west and especially N.America.There is a need to counter such bias,too.

stern

"I believe the bias is over overwhelmingly in favour of Israel in the west and especially N.America"

Are you serious? (Actually, knowing what a hate-filled pig you are, I'm sure you're perfectly serious about this). Do you actually believe that with media like the New York Times and CNN in the US, and the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail in Canada (not to mention the CBC and CTV), there is actually a pro-Israel bias?

As usual, you're dreaming through your bigoted hat.

ObamaYoMoma

Of course you don't see it, but you are completely oblivious of the stealth global jihad being waged by the Islamic world against the West primarily via mass Muslim immigration for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme because you have been rendered into an obsessed Jew hater courtesy of the CBC. Hence, in your extremely irrational mind, Muslims represent everything in this world that is good and Jews represent everything in this world that is evil. In other words, your reality has been effectively inverted courtesy of the CBC.

Hell, I'm betting that courtesy of the CBC you are also completely oblivious to the reality that throughout the Islamic world Christians, Atheists, and all other non-Muslim unbelievers living in the Islamic world as less than second-class dhimmi citizens are violently oppressed and systematically persecuted when not outright slaughtered altogether throughout the Islamic world. Hence, how can you be gullible enough to swallow what is in fact Muslim taqiyya used to vilify Israel meant to dupe gullible useful idiots? The answer is the CBC. Indeed, the Muslims are guilty of exactly what they falsely accuse Israel of being guilty of, yet you are so inculcated and narrow-minded, you are completely unaware of it and as a result I have no doubt that you believe I'm blowing smoke up your backside.

I'm betting as well that you are also totally oblivious at the same time to the reality that the permanent jihad of conquest being waged perpetually by the Islamic world against the Jewish unbelievers in Israel – via their proxy the so-called Palestinians – which were created out of whole cloth in Moscow in 1964 by the Soviet KGB as a disinformation campaign to dupe gullible useful idiots like you, is just one of many permanent jihads of conquest that the Islamic world is also waging simultaneously around the world against many and various non-Muslim unbelievers such as the Hindu unbelievers in Kashmir, Jammu, and India, the Buddhist unbelievers in Southern Thailand, the Christian unbelievers in the Southern Philippines, the atheist and Orthodox Christian unbelievers in Chechnya and Russia, the animist and Christian unbelievers in Cote D'Ivoire, Nigeria, Sudan, Darfur, Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, the Orthodox Christian unbelievers in Bosnia and Kosovo, and on and on ad nauseum.

Which also includes, by the way, the stealth global jihad in the West primarily via mass Muslim immigration for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme. As Muslims never ever migrate to the West or anywhere else for that matter to assimilate and integrate, but instead to eventually subjugate and dominate via the eventual imposition of Sharia (Islamic law) for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme.

Indeed, in country after country and anywhere and everywhere mass Muslim immigration is occurring today in the world, just like clockwork the vast overwhelming majority of Muslim immigrants flat out refuse to assimilate and integrate and instead form segregated Muslim only enclaves that in time eventually morph into Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia as fifth columns and in direct contravention to the laws of the states in which they reside.

As a matter of fact, the government of France just a few years ago counted 758 Muslim no-go zones in France alone. Indeed, Europe today is populated with over a thousand Muslim no-go zones already, and each one of them acts like tiny sovereign Islamic statelets inside the states in which they reside, because again Muslims never ever migrate to the West or anywhere else for that matter to assimilate and integrate, but instead to eventually subjugate and dominate via the eventual imposition of Sharia for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme.

However, you would never know any of this thanks again to the CBC. As for as you are concerned, the jihad of conquest being waged against the Jewish unbelievers in Israel by the Islamic world is the sole source of evil in the world together, of course, with the USA, and as for as you are concerned, it isn't a jihad of conquest, but a conflict instead caused by evil land grabbing greedy Jews. As for as the other many aforementioned jihads of conquest also being waged simultaneously against many various other non-Muslim unbelievers around the world besides the Jewish unbelievers in Israel, they don't even exist in your thoroughly corrupted mind. Yet, you nonetheless adore the CBC, because you couldn't be more inculcated and brainwashed.

Western Canadian

Since it is hard to tell who you are referring to in this latest of your many and pitiable rants, it is hard to tell who you are attacking. And virtually no one on this board is unaware of underhanded jihad (you seem to think you have a unique vision – you don’t), or the terrorist variety, which you so stupidly try to pretend does not exist….. try telling that one to the parents of children murdered in a pizza shop…

Most canadians do not watch the cbc, and are tired of pumping tax dollars into it. You know as little about canada, as you do islam and jihad.

truepeers

You are obviously not well-served by the media because you repeat, the now ad nauseam, claim that Galloway was banned. He was not banned. He sought information from the Canadian High Commission in London on whether he would be permitted entry and was given the advice that he may well be refused entry by the border officials for having publicly given money to a listed terrorist organization (Hamas). He then made no attempt to enter Canada and so there was no decision made at the border whether to admit him or not. But that didn't stop Galloway from making a cause celebre of his case and going to the courts in an attempt to overturn a non-decision.

Anyone who doesn't see that Galloway is objectively pro-fascist is living in an antisemitic cloud. And yes, the CBC has a lot to do with that.

old white guy

federal court judges in canada are as activist as are those in the u.s. the cbc should be defunded and closed. the lies they spew are dangerous to free people. the courts also need an overhaul to weed out all the socialists that are on the bench.

General P. Malaise

I just sent the PM an email saying as much

Marty

the cbc is where the American print and electronic media are headed. Some outlets seem to already be there. It's remarkably easy for propagandists in the media to criticize Israel. They have ready access to Israeli arabs and Jews who are hostile to their government's policy and can locate them on a daily basis. No such opportunity exists in any muslim and arab society.

ObamaYoMoma

(To clarify this issue, the documentary makers show a clip from Arab TV in which Galloway is seen handing money over to Hamas – and bragging about it.)

Galloway is married to a so-called Palestinian, which must mean that he is a Muslim convert. Otherwise, his wife is committing a capital offense per the dictates of Islam. Hence, that would make Galloway a Muslim jihadists as opposed to a terrorists, because jihad is always only in the cause of Allah to make Islam supreme and can be both violent and non-violent, while terrorism, on the other hand, can be for any number of political causes in stark contrast to jihad, is perpetrated by non-Muslims only, and as its name implies is always only violent.

As a matter of fact Grover Norquist is an American example of a Muslim stealth jihadists also married to a Muslim. Yet, he is still nonetheless a powerful player in the Republican Party and conservative movement.

Western Canadian

Again, with this pathetic drivel:

“Hence, that would make Galloway a Muslim jihadists as opposed to a terrorists, because jihad is always only in the cause of Allah to make Islam supreme and can be both violent and non-violent, while terrorism, on the other hand, can be for any number of political causes in stark contrast to jihad, is perpetrated by non-Muslims only, and as its name implies is always only violent. ”

Jihad, like any form of warfare, can take many forms. Subtle, or unspeakable. And on the subject of jihad terrorism, who would you believe, a demented, unstable, delusional and dishonest failure of a human being (see directly above), or mo himself??

‘I have been made successful through terrorism’ That is NOT a quote from a famous christian or jew.

ObamaYoMoma

'I have been made successful through terrorism' That is NOT a quote from a famous christian or jew.

I've attended over the years a lot of lectures given by scholars that have studied classic Arabic and all of them will tell you that when you read the Koran in the classic Arabic, as opposed to an approved English language translation, that the classic Arabic Koran reads far more ruthless, cruel, and brutal than the approved English language translation because the English language is simply inadequate to translate the meaning of classic Arabic accurately. Hence, when you are reading, “I have been made successful through terrorism,” you are reading what is an approximation at best, and an approximation that all scholars that have studied the classic Arabic agree is simply inadequate.

The Arabic word that was translated was actually jihad, which was translated into the English word terrorism. However, the English word terrorism is simply an inadequate word to accurately reflect the true meaning of jihad.

Indeed, jihad is specific to Islamic civilization only and is the sixth and most important pillar of Islam. In fact, what the word jihad – not in Arabic but in Islam – actually means is holy fighting in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme. Indeed, per the sixth and most important pillar of Islam, jihad is an obligatory duty for EVERY MUSLIM on earth. No exceptions.

Therefore, ALL MAINSTREAM ORTHODOX MUSLIMS ON EARTH are jihadists. A tiny minority of them are violent jihadists, while the vast overwhelming majority of them are non-violent stealth jihadists, and the few that are not jihadists are not Muslims at all, but instead blasphemous apostates that per the dictates of MAINSTREAM ORTHODOX ISLAM must be executed.

In addition, non-violent stealth jihad relative to violent jihad is employed by the Islamic world against the West astronomically far more prevalently and constitutes an exponentially far greater threat to the continued peace, prosperity, freedom, and security of the West relative to violent jihad.

Indeed, unless something drastic happens, the Islamic world can never hope to defeat the West via violent jihad because the West is simply far too advanced, powerful, and rich relative to the Islamic world. However, via non-violent stealth jihad, such as mass Muslim immigration to the West for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme, the Islamic world can conquer the West. As a matter of fact, it is already happening throughout the world including Europe, America, and Canada, and unless we make a course correction, what we see happened in Cote D'Ivoire last year, and what we see currently happening in Nigeria today, will be happening throughout the West in the future as well.

Unfortunately, because jihad, which is both violent and non-violent, is always conflated with terrorism, which as its name implies is always only violent, per the dictates of PC multiculturalism, the non-violent stealth varieties of jihad, such as mass Muslim immigration to the West for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme, is able to occur today throughout the West completely unopposed, because if it isn't construed as being violent, then it isn't construed as being terrorism, and if it isn't construed as being terrorism, then it isn't opposed.

Hence, conflating jihad with terrorism, per the dictates of PC multiculturalism, which you are addicted to doing since you are a victim of the inferior Canadian education system, enables non-violent stealth jihad, such as mass Muslim immigration to the West for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme, to occur today throughout the West totally unopposed, and again non-violent stealth jihad relative violent jihad is not only employed by the Islamic world astronomically far more prevalently, but also constitutes at the same time the exponentially far greater threat to the West.

Hence, the only viable solution is to outlaw Islam and ban and reverse mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP. As zero Muslim stealth jihadists living in West as a fifth column would virtually eliminate the threat of violent jihad attacks inside the homeland and at the same time also eliminate the much greater threat emanating from non-violent stealth jihad primarily via mass Muslim immigration to the West for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme.

Advocatus

The CBC is the usual PC basket case where a much-vaunted "diversity of opinions" is but a stand-in for ideological conformity. It's essentially a BBC wannabe staffed by the same kind of smug self-righteous "investigative" reporters pursuing their own brand of agenda journalism. In the BBC's defense, at least it produces some fine nature and science documentaries, while you won't see many of those made by the CBC.

Barry from Victoria

Personally, I loathe the CBC so much that I don't even watch their hockey coverage anymore. If the Harper government put Don Cherry in charge of the Communist Broadcasting Corporation I would avidly drink up the ensuing hilarity. It should also be noted that all the other Canadian news outlets take their cues from the CBC… with one exception. We now have the Sun News Network, the only conservative news organization in North America, now that George Soros has bought Fox News.

Ghostwriter

Ummm,I don't remember that Soros bought Fox News. He certainly doesn't have any control over the content of that network. In fact,Bill O'Reilly has criticized George Soros on a number of occasions. Glenn Beck also criticized Soros on his show when he was on Fox News constantly. Barry from Victoria,Soros may have his fingers in a lot of media outlets,but Fox News isn't one of them.

General P. Malaise

Soros does seem to be exerting power over FOX news. He had Beck fired (pressured advertises through a proxy to boycott Beck's show and FOX caved, the others don't threaten Soros the same way Beck did so FOX plays into the narrative fine since they are not as fair and balanced as they claim). And recently one of his people has been hired by FOX. O'Reilly is not conservative and one of the reasons I don't watch FOX.

FOX gives air time to leftists who are nothing but vulgar shrills for islam and the marxists …but for me their biggest crime is in what they refuse to air.

Maher

Victims, victims, victims for ever. Victims of what? When confronted with FACTS the Arabs are singing the same old song! But the facts are stubborn, the Arabs are the worst predators which turned native Jews and Christians into minorities in their own lands, stripping them of their rights and erasing their history. And this is going on under our eyes with the complicity of CBC and other dhimmis Main Stream Medias.

QED

Maher, you are correct of course. Lenin had an expression for people like the CBC – useful idiots.

Denis

As a Canadian, every time I listen or watch CBC radio or television I want to kick in the TV set. The CBC is so biased in its views that it has no tolerance for other than socialist or lefty Liberal views. The CBC is anti Conservative in Canada anti Americana conservative opinions and politics, anti military anti police. Every opinion by so called experts on the CBC is from left wing academia (liberal and Socialist) with an agenda that allows for no other opinion or rebuttal by conservative commentators. Thank God Sun Media Television

mrbean

The extreme leftist media and the over-funded CBC in particular, is part of Pierre Trudeau's legacy in semi-socialist Canada. Pierre Eliott Trudeau, was the former Liberal caporegime and neo-communist dictator of Canada. Like Barack Obama today in the USA, he was never vetted, got a free ride, a get-out-of-trouble lifetime pass from the corrupt, manipulative, deceptive, left-wing propagandist leftist media, who just praised and fawned over all his infantile brainfarts and astonishingly bizarre, disquietingly extreme behavior. Most thinking Canadians understand what America's going through right now. Because they've been there before.

Western Canadian

You’ve been paying attention, well done mrbean. I could never understand why that jackass was allowed to enter politics….. His behaviour during ww2 was unspeakable, but the left allows anything for its own.

Western Canadian

But to be fair, prior to the rise of the left in canada, the cbc was reputed to be at least acceptable, ir not a shining example of doing it right.

Gord

Well said, Trudeau was a truly bizarre funny little man who the CBC to this day praises as the best Prime Minister Canada has ever had…you would think the upper intellects in the present day media could somehow see through the propaganda of Barack Obama, but no, they heap praises on him like he is a god. Truly pathetic to watch.

evy

Thanks for posting the article. This age old institution CBC aka Communist Broadcasting Canada leaves livid, many Canadians. But what to do? They have everyone cowtowing to them. Makes me BARF when Conservative politicians and the PM give in to the malicious 22 Minutes. Do they know how sheepish (to put it as kindly as possible) they look? Come ON!
That station makes me so mad I'm having trouble being coherent here! Their bias is so obvious it takes deliberate wanna believe, to take anything they say as truth.
Now is the time, Prime Minister Harper, to cut strings to this most persistent of barnacles. From me you have NO permission to hand them my tax dollars.

Michael

I am really disappointed with P.M.Harper.Now he has majority,he can do it but he seems is not willing to cut CBC from public purse.Why,why,why???

QED

Michael, I agree with your frustration. But Harper is playing the long game. If he attacked the CBC as soon as he got a majority you would hear endlessly about Harper's "hidden agenda". He will make his move when the time is ripe – probably when he is in his second majority. In the meantimehHe is giving the CBC more and more rope to hang itself.

waterwillows

Why not write letters or e-mail your member of Parliment? Let them know you don't want your tax dollars being used for lefty propaganda and to stop payments.

Oraganize an on-line group to handle the procesing of these e-mails. Something should be done about it. Other countries have done similar things to inform their governments.

catherine

Not sure why I should pay $100 a year to keep the CBC? I never watch it because of it's bias……state run propaganda which I pay for. Don't like it………..

Bernhardt

Ari Lewis, interviewer ? Now there's an impartial being if I ever saw one ;working for that stable of impartiality , El Jazeera (English, of course) , with ihis spouse Naomi Klein and his father, Saint of us all, Stephen Lewis.

First Canadian

I shared a similar experience with CBC.

It feels like our country has been hijacked by minorities.

QED

I used to post comments on the CBC website. My comments which were conservative but always respectful were repeatedly censored. I complained to the CBC Ombudsman who told me to pound sand. At that point I realized I was wasting my time. I thought the CBC would care about customers who cared enough to complain. But the CBC didn't care because it believes it is in some privileged position. The CBC will never be reformed until it is sold and has to make money like every other media outlet. The sooner the better.

Oleg

There are some other points not mentioned in this article but perhaps in the documentary, not only is the CBC anti Isreal, anti American and anti Conservative, but they are anti oil sands and pro ecomarxist as well. It's bad enough that the CBC is inherently bias in favor of leftists and against Conservatives and have the taxpayer pay the bills what is worse is that they use a large part of their $1.1 billion dollar bailout to silence critics in the private media.
A prime example is the National Post, at one time they ran a column called "CBC Watch" scrutinizing the state broadcaster, so what did the CBC do? They bought ad space in the National Post and offer the paper a content sharing deal. Not too surprisingly the "CBC Watch" column then disappeared. The CBC also owns about 40% of the Canadian Press wire service, not too surprising that C.P never carries any stories criticizing the CBC, or it's actions.

Oleg

The CBC isn't a broadcaster in the conventional sense, they receive funds from the Federal government but do not answer to anyone in government. The elite that runs the CBC does not tolerate disent or cricism very well, in fact evidence seems to indicate that the CBC has the equivailent of a campaign war room in a political party. This war room hands out directives to CBC staff on how they should cover a news story and even does so with it's entertainment division to lampoon or destroy it's critics in comedy programs, for example.
For several decades they have given air time to a radical environmentalist under the guise of a "Science Program" because he was once a geneticist 40+ years ago. This so called scientist has his own "non profit" environmental advocacy group with over 100 registered political lobbyists on the payroll. This same group took funds from an organization representing the Alaskan salmon fishing industry to attack fish farming in British Columbia. Recently they were canvasing for donations, presumably aimed at children, to rescue and relocate Santa and the elves because the North Pole was supposedly melting.
Because they get $1.1 billion in free taxpayer money every year they also don't have to answer to the audience, or the marketplace. It is basically a sovereign entity that can do whatever it likes without being held accountable to anyone. Even the BBC does not have this level of autonomy.

evy

"Recently they were canvasing for donations, presumably aimed at children, to rescue and relocate Santa and the elves because the North Pole was supposedly melting. "
Yes–heard that. It is pretty low, selling one lie for another. (David Suzuki is the 'scientist'–for the sake of those who are not subjected to the CBC.) Mind abuse, and incredibly effective brainwashing, hallmarks of the CBC. (By the way, http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/894769/wrap-up-yo… )

Max Power

sell the CBC …PERIOD

Blaze Pascal

I just want to live long enough to see those b*stards punished.

Anthony DiMattei

ask Israel about the USS Liberty

Rod Swanson

CBC claims it is more "fair and balanced". Speaking of fair and balanced, CBC has a show called "Little Mosque On the Prairie" which they claim "helps bring better understanding" of way of life of "minorities". If CBC wants to be "fair" why don't they produce shows like " Little Synagogue In Iran" or Little Church In Mecca"? I am sure Muslems will also find it "funny" like "enlightened" Canadians think Little Mosque is "funny".
Another show that CBC does is Hockey Night In Canada, which really should be called "Hockey In Night In Toronto". I resent a state-run broadcaster picking winners or losers for Canada's cultural asset such as hockey( I would have no issue if the Toronto Maple Leafs broadcast all their games on a private network)

http://cybergatis.blogspot.com cybergatis

what is the CBC’s aim in doing so?

Barakobammy

Canadians (Americans who went north) would be speaking Russian if it was not for the USA. We really should make it all one country. It’s time.

JC Rules

I think the Question Remains;… Why are Canadians having their Money sdtolen through taxation to Pay for a Media Outlet that has made it their Lifes work to Slander Conservatives, Jews ,and Christians, and Spin the News to favor Liberal/Left Values and Worldviews…
It’s not as if the Left doesn’t have enough Media Outlets working towards the same goals and agendas..There is in Fact a Media Hydra in the western world that spews the same Idealogical Rubbish constantly to indoctrinate and brainwash the Peoples of the Industrialized Countrys into accepting Leftist Values….
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If we Truly has a Conservative Government, and not a “Progressive” Conservative Government in Power, we might see a defunding of CBC,which would at least mean that the Canadian Public thats Values don’t reflect those of the Liberal/Left, are not required to fund an org. that is working against their Beliefs,and Traditional Canadian Values…..>

Marco A.

I have just begun to read your article, so I am not entirely sure of the details just yet; however, the CBC is absolutely a propaganda machine, it is disgusting, biased, subversive garbage.